Factores de riesgo de la tuberculosis pulmonar en pacientes timorenses / Risk factors of lung tuberculosis in patients from East Timor
Medisan
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22(1)ene. 2018. tab
Article
in Spanish
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RESUMEN
Se realizó un estudio observacional y analítico, de casos y controles, pareados por sexo y edad, de 126 pacientes ingresados en la sala de aislamiento del Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares, en Dili, Timor Oriental, durante el año 2015, con vistas a determinar los factores de riesgo asociados a la tuberculosis pulmonar en ellos. El grupo de casos, de 42 integrantes, incluyó a los recién diagnosticados con tuberculosis y a los que presentaron recaída, fallo terapéutico, resistencia a múltiples fármacos, así como padecimiento previo de la afección con secuelas (bronquiectasias concomitantes con infección, hemoptisis); en tanto, el grupo de controles lo conformaron 84 pacientes con entidades respiratorias no tuberculosas. De las variables analizadas, la presencia de alcoholismo, la desnutrición, el contacto íntimo con pacientes cuya baciloscopia dio positiva y el ser recluso o ex-recluso, fueron los factores de riesgo de mayor asociación causal y estadística en el contagio de la enfermedad y constituyeron los resultados más relevantes de esta investigación
ABSTRACT
An observational, analytic and cases-controls study of 126 patients paired by sex and age, admitted to the isolation room of Guido Valadares National Hospital, in Dili, East Timor, was carried out during 2015, aimed at determining the risk factors associated with lung tuberculosis in them. The cases group with 42 members, included those recently diagnosed with tuberculosis and those that presented relapse, therapeutic failure, resistance to multiple drugs, as well as previous suffering of the disorder with sequelae (concomitant bronchiectasis with infection, hemoptysis); as long as, the control group was conformed by 84 patients with non tuberculous breathing entities. Of the analyzed variables, the presence of alcoholism, malnutrition, intimate contact with patients whose baciloscopia was positive and being prisoner or former-prisoner, were the risk factors of more causal and statistical association in the infection of the disease and constituted the most outstanding results in this investigation
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Main subject:
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Observational study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Medisan
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2018
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Cuba
Institution/Affiliation country:
Hospital General Docente Dr Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso/CU
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